A4P Guest: I’m 25 years old and I’ve been chatting with this man for almost one year now. I think I can say that we are dating even though we are dating online. He lives in America and I live in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is 29 years old. We pretty much talk almost everyday on Facebook or Viber and sometimes on Skype if I find good Internet connection. Now we are kind of agreeing to get married. We both are born again Christians and we want to do dating and marriage according to God’s will. I’m dropping you this message today because of one issue. Few months ago, we started to talk about sex, how we both had never been sexual with another person and all. Then one thing led to the other, now we are talking about sex almost every day. And last week he asked me to send him – – – pictures of me. Do you think it is wrong to talk about sex and send – – – pictures to the man I am planning to marry?”
The Cross
“The Cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate this world . . . . One of the reasons why the cross is offensive to people is that the Cross demands, it does not suggest, it demands a new lifestyle in all of us.” -Pastor Billy Graham
The Cross demands a new lifestyle in all of us!
So, if we are ambassadors of the message of the Cross, our messages, in words or actions, must demand change of life in us as well as in those who hear our messages; otherwise we are entertainers, ministers of this dark world. ///
Let the Truth Offend You
The truth has to offend our intellect and long-held wrong system of beliefs before it wins over our soul.
When we refuse or avoid the opportunity to be offended by the truth, we let go the opportunity to be set free.
“You will know the truth and that truth will set you free.”
(John 8:32) ///
Marriage Grocery Shopping
Most nutritionists advise people not to go to grocery shopping while hungry. Do you know why? Well, if you are hungry, you buy everything regardless of the fat content and the calorie count of the food and end up destroying your health and excellent body figure.
As going out to grocery shopping while hungry is a dangerous business, so is looking for a spouse while you are desperately looking for someone to marry. Do you know why?
“Mom, what is this sex thing?”
It was one of those normal late weekday afternoons. I was running around to bake something for snack. My daughter, who was at the time seven years old, was trying to help out her mama. She brought a step stool to stand next to me. My little one, who was five, was sitting down at the kitchen tea-table. He was a brand new kindergartner and I thought he didn’t have much to say about his new school.
Then from nowhere, he said, “Mom, what is this sex thing?”
Just imagine me. I looked as though someone splashed cold water on my face. I immediately turned around to him and opened my mouth but all those vocabularies which used to hang out in my mouth and everything I read from Dr. James Dobson’s books disappeared from my brain and heart in an instant. So, I opened my mouth and got frozen as if someone pressed a “pause button” of my life.
Talk about Magical Kiss, this is it!
You know how you love one scene of a movie and you press “rewind” again and again and again just to see that particular scene many times?
Well, the kissing part of this couple’s story is something you will definitely press the rewind key at least three times.
Why? Because it is their first kiss EVER!
Who Should Prime the Pump?
When a husband receives respect from his wife, he finds it very easy to love his wife. In the same way, when a wife receives unconditional love from her husband, respecting and honoring her husband becomes her second nature.
But, for this biblical love-respect principle to work in a marriage, somebody has to “prime the pump” first.
Who? A husband or a wife?
One of them who is spiritually more matured and the one who loves Christ more will do. ///
Desirable Because She was Found from Him
After Adam lost one of his “ribs”, he became aware of this strange desire he had never experienced before. God knew and prepared beforehand what Adam would want to have immediately after he woke up from his “deep sleep”.
Adam didn’t say something to God like, “I think something is happening to me. I have this strange desire.”
No, Adam didn’t say that. God already met Adam’s desire the moment Adam woke up. Talk about “care-free life,” this is unmatched and unparalleled! Adam didn’t have to go through puberty or anything. Boom! Problem solved right there when he opened his eyes! I’m very jealous of him! Anyways, let me not get off track here. Continue reading Desirable Because She was Found from Him
Daylight Saving, Spring Forward starts today!
If you live in North America, don’t forget to set your watch/clock one hour forward.
No, it is not exciting at all to lose one hour! But hey, there is nothing we can do about it except accepting the fact and trying to get used to it. But the good thing is, we will soon get it back.
So, I personally choose to fix my eyes on getting it all back soon, not on losing it now.
Do you see the message? ///
We Get What We Go After
Whether we accept it as truth or not, “it is a law of life that we get what we go after.”
This truth is actually biblical. Knock, it shall be opened; seek, you shall find (Matthew 7).
So, the question is not whether or not the door will be opened and we find what we are seeking for, rather it is whether the door we are knocking on and the thing we are going after will lead us to life or not. ///